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DNA Match with Judith Spivak

DNA

06-17-2011 through 09-11-2011

Judith Spivak – Hello, Our DNA matches. My name is Judith Spivak. I live in California, born in Connecticut, Please respond. It should be interesting.

John – Judith, My apologies for taking so long to respond. Your communication came at a time that a lot was going on. In addition to the ancestory.com website, I maintain a family website. It would be a pleasure to provide you access. I need your email address to do so. The DNA testing is something I did for my son and daughter: J.P. and Michelle. All of us and my wife Pam have a profile on LinkedIn. Go to www.linkedin.com and search for the last name, “Elcik.” We all live in Fort Myers, Florida. Warmest regards, John John P. Elcik, IV

Judith – John It is exciting that we have a 12/12 match. Have you had this match before? The Y chromosomes in my family are limited. My father had three daughters, his brother never married, and as we know of “no children.” My grandfather was Tomos Spivak from Poland, and he was an only son. He came to this country in 1911 as a single man, getting processed through Ellis Island. If you are interested in finding out the genetic connection, we would have to do more tests. My father died in November 2009 at the age of 91 yrs old. I still have DNA from a toothbrush and hearing aids. He was born and raised in Connecticut. I brought him to California to live with my husband and me when he could no longer take care of himself. If you are interested, then we could start the process. If not, then it is not a problem. Sincerely, Judy Spivak Lakkis

John – You are the first ever to contact us regarding any match. I don’t yet know what a 12/12 match is or what the next step would entail. I’ll have to investigate. My best family website is a SharePoint site that requires I provide permission for each email address that accesses it. If you offer yours, I’ll let you in. Meanwhile, www.elcik.org has information anyone can view. We have long thought that most of our extended family originated from Slovakia. 🙂 Warmest Regards, John johnelcik@msn.com or jelcik@edulytics.com

Judith – Well, a 12/12 match means that we are related to how far back depends on more testing. It means we share a common male ancestor. We need to do a 37 or even better, a 67 marker test. I will be sending in my father’s hearing aids to Family Tree DNA. FTDNA for short. It will take approx 6-8 weeks for results. DNA Solutions did the 12/12 ancestry markers in the first test. Then I plugged the markers in Ancestry.com, and your name was a perfect 12/12 match. You can send your DNA at Family Tree DNA also for the 37/67 marker test. It is where we shall begin to find out who our common male ancestor is. My email address is judylakkis@yahoo.com, as I forgot to give it to you last time. My grandfather originated from Poland, lived in the Carpathian Mountains and Austria. I can show pictures and tell you more. Sincerely Judy Lakkis

Judith – 06/26/11, Good News, The Paternal Test we had done has 46 Markers. Could you get retested with familytreeDNA.com? The reason being, if we get the same test with the same lab, we leave it to them to find our ancestors. They will not take another’s lab results. They start with the 12 markers, then upgrade. It is about making money, but I am very interested in finding out how we connect. And one more question, I thought you were from Fort Myers, not Wellington, Florida?? Who is John Paul Elcik, IV from Wellington, Florida?? [That is me.] I have sent my dad’s hearing aids, and I have paid extra for the extraction. Sincerely, Judy

Judith – 08/12/11, Hello John, I am still waiting for more Y markers from FTDNA. They are very slow. Just to let you know. I wanted the ancestry markers for a family reunion in September, but it seems that I have to accept disappointment. J. Lakkis

Judith – 09/03/11, Hi. I have checked with experts from FTDNA, and I did have to increase 2 of the markers to make it a marker standard with SMGF… DYS442 +5… and GATA H4 +1 point. That leaves three matching markers. My family would like to pay the $159.00 for you to do the 37 Y marker testing from FTDNA. We are very curious to see how we are related. Please send me your address, and I will purchase the swab kit. And we will soon know. Sincerely, Judy

 

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Quick Cookies

Quick Cookies 

 

 

These “chocolate no bake cookies” have long been an Elcik family favorite.  John and Michelle like to make them together to give as Christmas presents.  And sometimes there are enough left over to do that.

Place together:

  • 4 cups of sugar
  • ½ lb. Butter
  • 1 cup milk
  • ½ cup powdered cocoa

 Boil above for 30 seconds., then Add:

  • 6 cups rolled oats
  • 2 cups peanut butter
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla

Drop on waxed paper.

Makes 5 dozen cookies.

 

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Karkos Kronicles

September 26, 2017 
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Karkos Kronicles

October 15, 2018
I was flipping through my genealogy program last night and realized with a shock that I hadn’t put my Mom’s adopted mother’s death date, nor my Mom’s death date in it. And, of course, I can’t find her adopted mom’s obit online or her husband’s, but I know I have the newspaper ones somewhere in my genealogy stuff.
For 7 years straight, I did my family’s genealogy research in between work and volunteer work. Since then, I’ve been doing it off and on and still finding stuff I didn’t have or stuff from cousins I met via Facebook (I’ve really got to get my Karkos Kronicles back online.). And all I started with were memories of my Dad.
For instance, my wife’s mother’s ancestors came from Russia, and my Dad’s ancestors from far eastern Slovakia, near Russia. Fate or coincidence? I didn’t marry until I was 41. It was her second marriage.
I know we all go back to Adam and Eve, but I’m more interested in filling in the gaps and learning about our stories and history. Still, Google has the current world population at 7.2 billion. That’s A LOT of sex since Adam and Eve.
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Request for Family Photos

Jim & Jeff,

I’m working on the “blood relatives” website project and need just a couple of photos.

Can you email me recent individual headshots (something from the last 2-3 years) of everyone in your nuclear family? (Dad, Mom, Children, Dogs, Cats)

The end picture will be a square photo of 500×500 pixels, but I can easily crop and resize any image. Mostly, I’m looking for realism.

Regards,

John, IV

P.S. Of course, if you want to send me a flash drive with all your photos, I do have a backup system in place. ?

 

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Blood Relatives Website

Jul 1, 2020, at 11:21 AM,

Jim & Jeff,

Our “Blood Relatives” website will be using a membership plugin that allows us total control over who has access to menu page items down to the level of who has access to specific posts. I will be making all three of us administrators. We can add others as administrators or editors like you, and I wish.

The site will be easy-to-use.

Currently, the public can only access the Home, About Us, and Contact us pages.

I am thinking about making obituaries and recipes public. I have 27 obituaries. I acknowledge where the obituaries come from, but I post a copy since they sometimes disappear from public viewing.

I want to send both of your credentials so that you will have full access. The site has 287 posts and a couple of dozen pictures at this point. I’m not planning on adding many pictures as Facebook does a better job than I can. Perhaps, a focused gallery of a dozen or so photos of each family member?

Send me a note if you want a login. Also, please share the summary details with the rest of the family. If you or they send me their email addresses, I will create user accounts.

Thanks for listening. I hope I have your support on this.

Love,

John